![]() ![]() Just as it is hard to gauge whether attacks on Russian soil are becoming more frequent, so it is equally hard to establish who might lie behind them, and how organised they might be. The same week, there were two drone attacks on an oil refinery in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia, and reports of power lines being destroyed south of St Petersburg, again by explosive devices. The regional governor blamed them explicitly on explosive devices. The railway authorities blamed these incidents on ‘illegal interference in the work of railway transport’. ![]() Then, two goods trains were derailed on successive days in the west Russian region of Bryansk. Four people were killed in the shelling of a village, Suzemka, just a few kilometres inside Russia. Over the past two weeks, small-scale shelling and acts of sabotage have also been reported, mostly in parts of Russia close to the Ukraine border. Prilepin said a second bomb had been planned as well, but the presumed assassin had taken flight. ![]() Social media showed pictures of the crater which had apparently been left by the explosion. Prilepin survived, albeit with serious injuries. His friend, sitting in the passenger seat, was killed. ![]() As he told it from his hospital bed, he was driving outside Nizhny Novgorod, a city more than 400km east of Moscow, when his car was struck by a bomb. On 6 May, an author and blogger, who goes by the name Zakhar Prilepin, became the latest Russian nationalist to be targeted by assassins. ![]()
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